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From this lack of knowledge there has arisen that fine dictum of morality so much bandied about by the philosophical crowd, that men are everywhere the same, and that having everywhere the same vices, it is rather useless to attempt to characterize the different races; which is just about as reasonable as if one wereContinue reading “Name that Author”

Read the closed comment thread accompanying this Nation article about school segregation before Katrina vanden Heuvel returns from whatever anti-(but nonetheless lily-)white Leftist fundraiser she’s at and has it removed. The article is par for the progressive course, attributing the organized white flight of suburban cities seceding from dangerous black school districts entirely to white malice: A new secessionist movement, anchored in the South, providesContinue reading “The Revolution will not be Moderated”

A friend reports, and I edit, from the front lines of New America: I’m working for a call center for a cell phone company as a customer service representative. One of my tasks is troubleshooting–identifying problems with equipment or service. Another is basic instruction on how to use our phones or service. As often as not, someoneContinue reading “Vibrant Encounter”

I was disappointed following this Reason link: Does the Free Market Punish Racism? I half-expected to find they were making Steven Farron’s “Prejudice is Free” argument, that racial discrimination isn’t tenable in a free market: The reason is a fundamental economic principle, which is obvious to common sense. If an individual or business, while engaging in anContinue reading “Discipline and Punish, Libertarian Mix”

 L’affaire Sterling has moved fast, and speed kills. The metaphorical highway is littered with the overwrought and under-thought. But some of the hysterics have been downright hysterical. Here’s the Times Picayune soothing our fears of racist contamination with the promise of decay and mortality: After all, Sterling is a jerk whose time on earth and brains are noticeably dwindling before theContinue reading “Language, Language”

Steve Sailer points out the hypocrisy of the NBA, a league that features an impressive, real-life  Russian oligarch as an owner, making such a show of revulsion regarding Donald Sterling’s tepid, private “racism”. So when I see the sudden jockeying of members celebrity oligarchs to carve up the expected spoils, people who command billions and conference with presidents, I can’t help butContinue reading “Not the New Plantation; The New Post-Soviet Oligarchy”

So our “literary” president thinks racism occasionally “percolates up”, does he? It’s down there in the murk, you see, sometimes rising (accompanied by the Jaws theme, no doubt) to break the placid surface. But, how does the mass dissemenation of a private, illegally recorded conversation constitute percolation? Isn’t more like an aggressive drilling down toContinue reading “President Wrong Metaphor”

I just found out today is National Cheese Day. I had to go online to verify that wasn’t just another name for Martin Luther King Day(it isn’t).

Steve Sailer likes to point out the irony of the Los Angeles Times’ dutiful support for illegal immigration driving the subsequent collapse of English literacy in Southern California, meaning fewer and fewer people are left who care to read the Los Angeles Times. Well, put this one in the Linguistic Self Displacement category: 2014 willContinue reading “First they came for the librarians…”